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Prestigious award from the Institute of Physics
Prestigious award from the Institute of Physics.
About this update from Gooch & Housego Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 5461M Gooch & Housego PLC 17 July 2014 \n \n\n\n\n\n\nFor immediate release\n\n\n17 July 2014\n\n\n\n\n \nRNS REACH\n \nGooch & Housego PLC\n(\"G&H\" or the \"Company\")\n \nPrestigious award from the Institute of Physics \n \nGooch & Housego PLC, the specialist manufacturer of optical components and systems, announces that it is one of just four companies to receive the prestigious Innovation Award 2014 from the Institute of Physics. The award acknowledges Gooch & Housego's Fibre-Q product line which gives customers greater versatility in the use of lasers.\n \nLasers are becoming ubiquitous in a wide range of applications today, from manufacturing smart phones to highly sensitive sensing applications. Gooch & Housego's Fibre-Q acousto-optic solution allows the rapid electronic control of the optical properties of a laser beam, enabling precise changes in laser amplitude, frequency and wavelength that are required for a wide variety of applications such as material processing, optical sensing and imaging.\n \n Dr Frances Saunders, President of the Institute of Physics, commented:\n \n \"Despite being thought useless when discovered more than 50 years ago, businesses are still finding uses for lasers in the widest range of industries. Gooch & Housego are a wonderful example of a company that is driving technology forward to help other companies exploit a founding innovation, while creating jobs and making a very healthy return for themselves.\"\n \nDr Andrew Robertson, Gooch & Housego's Senior Vice President - Systems Technology Group, commented:\n \n \"For Gooch & Housego, winning this award provides recognition that by using our expertise in the field of photonics and detailed understanding of optical material characteristics, we can develop an innovative product with a great technical competitive advantage that precisely serves the needs of our customers in a wide variety of applications.\"\n \n \n\n\n\n\nFor further information contact: -\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGooch & Housego PLC\n\n\n01460 256440\n\n\n\n\nGareth Jones / Andrew Boteler\ngoochandhousego.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuchanan\nMark Court / Gabriella Clinkard\n\n\n020 7466 5000\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInvestec ...